Chapter 26 THE INQUISITION AND THE INDEX.[724]

§ 1. The Inquisition in Spain.

The idea conveyed in the term Inquisition is the punishment of spiritual or ecclesiastical offences by physical pains and penalties. It was no new conception in the Christian Church. It had existed from the days of Constantine. So far as the medi?val Church is concerned, historians roughly distinguish between the E

                         

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